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AHMEDABAD: Zydus Hospital expects to commission its Ahmedabad hospital project by the end of 2013. The project owned by Zydus Family Trust will also foray into Vadodara and spend Rs Rs 450 crore on its hospital ventures. The company already operates one hospital in Anand. "We have started construction of hospital project in Ahmedabad. " said Zydus group chairman Pankaj Patel on the sidelines of Gujarat Pharma Conclave held in Ahmedabad. The Ahmedabad project will have more than 15 floors and will come up at an investment of Rs 250 crore.

BANGALORE: Nobel laureate and founder of micro-finance giant Grameen Bank in Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus today said borrowers of the bank were keen to pick up 20 per cent of the shares on offer in the initial public offering of his country's biggest mobile phone operator Grameenphone. Speaking at a function here, the Nobel Peace Prize winner said: "20 per cent should be reserved for borrowers of Grameen Bank. " Grameenphone is a joint venture between Grameen Telecom, owned by the bank, and Norwegian telcom company Telenor.

MUMBAI: A medical emergency in the air being treated by specialist doctors on the ground? Seems unbelievable, but this will soon be a reality when Air-India starts flight operations with its newly-acquired fleet of Boeing aircraft equipped with tele-medicine facilities. The national carrier is planning to introduce the facility for on-board passengers next year connecting the airborne plane to the specialist medical institution, Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore through latest communication facilities, top AI officials said.

HYDERABAD: Satyam Computer Services has launched a project that provides tele-electrocardiogram (ECG) services to patients in remote areas across the country. The city-based IT major's global health care practice unit has implemented the programme in association with non-profit organisation Byrraju Foundation. It was launched on a pilot basis last year and it covers 3.5 million people in villages across India. The services are provided through Foundation's Ashwini clinics located in several parts of the country.

BANGALORE: Air One Feeder Airline Pvt Ltd, a new 'no-frill' airline promoted by retired Indian Airline officials, plans to begin operations from April next. The Bangalore-based firm plans to operate 50-seater jets of Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer on the southern and western sectors, Air One Director J W Lobo told PTI today. Air One has received a no-objection certificate from the Ministry of Civil Aviation, he said, adding the airline would not compete with major players on the trunk routes.

BANGALORE: The Union Health and Family Welfare Minster Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said 12,000 additional post graduate seats in government-run medical colleges in the country would be introduced in the next three years. "The health ministry would sanction 4,000 additional PG seats in government-run medical colleges this year and a similar number each in the next two years," Azad said while inaugurating 1,400-bed Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre here. Stressing on the need to boost manpower in the health care sector, the minister said the government would sanction 270 nursing schools that would produce additional 20,000 trained personnel every year.

BHUBANESHWAR: Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals, one of the advanced heart hospitals in the country, would set up a 1,000-bed cardiac medical facility here. "It's my great pleasure that one of the best and most advanced heart hospitals will be coming up in the city of Bhubaneshwar", chief minister Naveen Patnaik said while laying its foundation stone of the hospital today. Stating that construction of the hospital in Odisha was a significant step to bring quality and affordable healthcare for people from various socio-economic strata, he said the hospital was known for providing affordable quality healthcare to the masses.

BANGALORE: The Bangalore-based Mitra Biotech , a biology research firm and spin-off from MIT, US, has received venture capital funding from Accel Partners and KITVEN , the Karnataka government-initiated VC fund. Though the quantum of funding is not known, both the VC firms have acquired a minority stake in Mitra Biotech, which is focussed on personalised treatment of cancer. Realising that the success rate of cancer treatment through clinical trials is low, largely due to a mismatch of drugs and patients, Mitra is developing an analytical diagnostic platform in consultation with the Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre located within the Narayana Hrudayalaya Health City in Bangalore.